Bedding device provided with insulating and excrement collecting accessories



20, 1969 c. M. CHASSE ET AL 3,444,557 BEDDING DEVICE PROVIDED WITHINSULATING AND EXCREMENT COLLECTING ACCESSORIES Filed June 9, 1967 Sheetof 2 c. M. CHASSE E AL 3,444,567

May 20, 1969 BEDDING nsvxca raovnmn wz'ru INSULATING AND EXCREMENTCOLLECTING ACCESSORIES Sheet 2 of 2 Filed June 9, 1967 United StatesPatent 3,444,567 BEDDING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH INSULATING AND EXCREMENTCOLLECTING ACCESSORIES Colette Marie Chass, Mouez Ar Mor, Le Pontigou,Roscoif 29N, France, and Jean Francois Hery, 5 Square St.-

Pasquier, Nantes 44, France Filed June 9, 1967, Ser. No. 644,868 Claimspriority, application France, July 2, 1966,

2,234 Int. Cl. A61g 7/02, 7/04 US. Cl. 5-90 3 Claims ABSTRACT OF THEDISCLOSURE The present invention has for its objects a mattress providedwith accessories whose purpose it is to insulate children or adultsconfined to bed, from their excrements and to collect the latter andplace the user in a position which is appropriate for this purpose.

It is another object of the invention to provide a mattress which isadapted for maintaining the user, even in an agitated state during sleepin such a way so that he may evacuate bowels and mines without sullyinghimself or the mattress.

Improvement of child bed hygiene has already been proposed. However,none of the known solution provide all of the following advantages whichare involved in the invention:

Comfortable, cozy, and dry bedding without any air drafts (contrary tothe suspended draw-sheet models) with total insulation from excrements,bowels and urines which are collected in a container. The skin,therefore, remains clean and dry, without any contact with humidsurfaces whether or not they are waterproof which provoke painfulglutueal erythemas and cause children to cry. This is not so whenperforated ordinary draw-sheets or mattresses are used which leave markson the skin.

A position that is favorable to the morphological development of theinfant. The lower limbs, free of any hindrances develop more rapidly andbetter by allowing natural positions thus providing excellentconformation of hip articulation. On this point, the same advantages areobtained as with babies so-called frog-shaped type of clothes (reflectedlegs in external rotation) which is actually used in pediatrics tocorrect shape deflects in articular cavities.

Easy and economical nursing, through elimination of changes, and,therefore, of washing of diapers, babies clothes, waterproof pants, etc.The part of the body which they clothe is usually uncovered. Cleaning(emptying of receptacle) is reduced to its simplest form.

It is another object of the invention to provide an insulating mattresswhich is economical due to the fact that its use reduces the usualpurchase of diapers, babies clothes, of waterproof or absorbent pantsand cellulose and because it decreases or eliminates the purchase ofantierythematous ointments used as a corrective measure for the humidityinherent in usual practices.

The mattress according to the invention, made from a locallywaterproofed material, comprises guiding projecting pads and imprints onthe surface adapted to the maintenance of the adequate part of the bodyabove the orifice of a detachable collector, which is embedded in arecess arranged within the thickness of the mattress.

According to another feature of the invention, the surface of themattress is provided with a detachable nonwettable coating which ispermeable, and which has an increasing porosity in the direction inwhich gravity exercises its influence thus providing for the eliminationof occasional traces of urine.

According to another feature of the invention, the use of the mattressthus constituted, by individuals of the masculine sex, is completed bythe use of a shell which deflects urine and which is maintained in placeby a non-wettable organ.

The invention will be better understood from the following description.

In the appended drawings:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a mattress according to a preferredembodiment of the invention.

FIGURES 2a and 2b represent two forms of execution of the excrementcollector with which it is provided.

FIGURE 3 is a top view of a porous rug placed on its surface.

FIGURE 4 represents in perspective, a shell which deflects urine thuscompleting the bedding device and FIGURE 5 represents the position ofthe infant on the mattress.

The mattress shown in FIGURE 1, comprises a cavity in its central regionin which is embedded an excrement collector whose neck appears in 6 andthe body at 7. The upper wall of the body 7 is covered by a trap 2obtained by cutting out apart of the mattress whose object is to make itpossible to slide the collector into the cavity. This cut-out could bereplaced by a simple slit whose lips would meet.

The body of the mattress is made of a flexible and resistant materialwhich can be seen at 12, undergoing no permanent deformation in use. Itforms, for example, a block several centimeters thick, made of latexfoam, polyester, polyurethane, or other suitable material.

Two elongated protruding pads, 3a and 3b, preferably are integrallybuilt with the mattress and symmetrically arranged with respect to thelongitudinal axis thereof, being inclined at about twenty to twenty-fivedegrees with respect to this axis, and having for instance a length oftwenty to thirty centimeters.

Parts 4:: and 4b of the pads 3a and 3b form two small glutueal stopprojections.

When the musculature of the infants lower limbs are in the process ofdevelopment, the latter takes the habit of leaning on his soles, whichtends to separate him from the required position: this drawback iscircumvented by fixing onto the mattress a detachable transversalprojecting pad 5 whose purpose is to wedge his head while the infantoccupies the position shown in FIGURE 5 The orifice 6 of the bowel andurine collector, thanks to the position which the guiding pads force theinfant to take, may be reduced to a surface of less than twenty squarecentimeters.

Collector 7 of which two forms of execution have been shown, by way ofexample only, in FIGURES 2a and 2b, will have a volume, for example, ofseven hundred and fifty cubic centimeters, approximately; it will beadvantageously made of a flexible transparent plastic material (andpossibly graduated) so as to allow bowel examination.

The portion on the surface of the mattress included between the twolongitudinal pads and the cavity which is to receive the collector, aswell as the pads themselves are waterproofed.

A detachable cloth envelope 8 encloses the mattress;

it presents a cut-out which leaves to view the waterproofed surfaceincluded between the longitudinal folds.

A porous interchangeable rug 9 is cut out to fit the shapes of thewaterproof surface which it covers. The upper face, on which the infantrest, has finer pores than the other face. It provides a smooth andtight contact, while absorbing accidental urine drops which it transmitsto the collector. The location of this rug on the mattress is indicatedin dashes-and-dots line in FIG- URE 1.

FIGURE 4 shows a shell 11 which deflects urine, provided with anabdominal wedge 10 whose purpose it is to allow attachment to the bodyof a child of the masculine sex.

This shell, made of very flexible plastic material or from cloth whichhas been rendered non-wettable, avoids wetting of the upper sheet.

When it is desired to place the mattress in a bed of standard size, aremovable transversal mattress portion of comparatively small width isjuxtaposed at one or the other ends of the mattress, to adjust thelength of the latter to that of the bed. This complementary mattressportion 13 will first be placed at that end of the mattress whichcorresponds to the feet of the infant. Then, when the infant has growntaller, portion 13 should be placed at that end of the mattress whichcorresponds to its head; as indicated in dotted line in FIG. 13. Thisenables the infants body to be maintained in the suitable position withrespect to the receptacle and the longitudinal pads, the detachable pad5 however, being then removed and the infants head in part bearing onportion 13.

What we claim is: V

1. A bedding device including a mattress having an upper surface andhead, feet and central regions, the mattress being provided with acavity in said central region, and a detachable excrement collectorembedded in said cavity, said collector having an orifice which opens atsaid upper surface, and, two elongated substantially cylindricalprotruding pads on said upper surface, symmetrically arranged withrespect to the longitudinal axis of the mattress and inclined so as toconverge in the direction of the feet region, said pads being provided,at the end thereof which is nearer the feet region, with substantiallyspherical projections respectively arranged on both sides of the saidorifices.

2. A bedding device as claimed in claim 1, further including a removabletransversal mattress portion adapted for being juxtaposed to themattress at one or the other end thereof.

3. A bedding device including a mattress having an upper surface andhead, feet and central regions, the mattress being provided with acavity in said central region, and a detachable excrement collectorembedded in said cavity, said collector having an orifice which opens atsaid upper surface, and, two elongated substantially cylindricalprotruding pads on said upper surface, symmetrically arranged withrespect to the longitudinal axis of the mattress and inclined so as toconverge in the direction of the feet region, that portion of the uppersurface of the mattress which is comprised between the said elongatedpads and the said cavity being waterproofed and covered with a porousinterchangeable rug the upper face of which has finer pores than theother face, the rest of the said upper surface being covered with adetachable cloth envelope.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,470,398 5/1949 Hayes 5-912,815,516 12/1957 Holton 5-91 X 2,932,830 4/1960 Lund 5-90 X 3,339,5449/1967 Kravitz 591 X OTHER REFERENCES 36,583 3/1909 Austria.

CASIMIR A. NUNBERG, Primary Examiner.

U.S. Cl. X.R. 59l

